Climate Change

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Garrett Fitzgerald: Helping local governments advance their work in sustainability

Fellow Garrett Fitzgerald is the Strategic Collaboration Director at the Urban Sustainability Directors Network (USDN), where he helps the organization’s local government members advance their work in sustainability.
May 21, 2019
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Holmes Hummel: Accelerating private capital utility investments in inclusive clean energy solutions

Fellow Holmes Hummel is the Founding Director of Clean Energy Works, a nonprofit organization that seeks to accelerate private capital utility investments in inclusive clean energy solutions.
May 21, 2019
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Sherry Login: Making the grid more efficient by incentivizing off-peak charging

Fellow Sherry Login, the manager of electric vehicles for Consolidated Edison (Con Edison) in New York, manages all customer-facing electric vehicle (EV) programs for the company. Her special project, however, is SmartCharge New York, an off-peak charging incentive program that she created two years ago.
May 21, 2019
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Colleen Callahan: Accelerating the transition to zero-emission transportation by facilitating targeted policy research

Fellow Colleen Callahan is deputy director of the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation, which conducts research and advises civic partners on the design and implementation of policies, plans and programs with a focus on advancing environmental sustainability. Part of Callahan’s job is to make sure the center’s findings get into the hands of the right decision makers.
May 21, 2019
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Stuart Cohen: Ensuring that urban communities that need mobility solutions the most get them

Fellow Stuart Cohen, who recently transitioned to private consulting practice after serving as the Founding Executive Director of TransForm for 21 years, is passionate about ensuring that urban communities that need mobility solutions the most get them.
May 21, 2019
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Niles finds in disasters, Twitter influencers get out-tweeted

When it comes to sharing emergency information during natural disasters, new University of Vermont research shows how timing is everything.
May 1, 2019
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Mulvaney's new book on solar power and environmental justice now out

In this important new primer, Dustin Mulvaney makes a passionate case for the significance of solar power energy and offers a vision for a more sustainable and just solar industry for the future. The solar energy industry has grown immensely over the past several years and now provides up to a fifth of California’s power. But despite its deservedly green reputation, solar development and deployment may have social and environmental consequences, from poor factory labor standards to landscape impacts on wildlife.
May 1, 2019
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Hino coauthor on paper showing US coastal businesses hit by everyday impact of climate change

... “We typically think about climate change in terms of extreme events like hurricanes and wildfires, but it actually causes impacts in all sorts of other ways,” said coauthor Miyuki Hino of Stanford University. “This is one way where it’s really a part of people’s daily lives. It’s chronic.” Annapolis is seeing seas rise at about twice the global rate, and Hino said the flooding there foreshadows the problems other coastal communities can expect.
February 20, 2019
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Sarah Myhre: A sea change in science

Fellow Sarah Myhre is a woman, a scientist, and a climate advocate. Are these strengths in a climate crisis?, asked a recent profile of her on Grist. “I think you can be both rigorous and objective and be human at the same time,” Myhre says. “And I have come to a place where I’m no longer willing to divorce my humanity from the science that I have participated in and am stewarding.”
January 10, 2019
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Andrew on editorial board and contributing author of California's Fourth Climate Change Assessment

From the Los Angeles Times: Heat waves will grow more severe and persistent, shortening the lives of thousands of Californians. Wildfires will burn more of the state’s forests. The ocean will rise higher and faster, exposing California to billions in damage along the coast. ...
January 1, 2019